Alberto Griggio wrote:
>  Hello everybody,
>  first I wanted to report what it seems a bug to me: according to the
>  doc, wx.Timer.Start returns True or False depending on the success of
>  the operation. But here (wxPython 2.4.0.6  GTK - but I think also MSW)
>  it always returns None. I can't test it on 2.4.0.7 at the moment, so
>  sorry if it has been already fixed.

It has now.  Thanks.

>  
>  Now, the question. I'm using wxPython together with the PIL to handle
>  images. Browsing the wiki, I found that the suggested way to get a
>  wx.Bitmap from a PIL image is:
>  
>      img = wx.EmptyImage(*pil_image.size)
>      img.SetData(pil_image.convert('RGB').tostring()) bmp =
>      wx.BitmapFromImage(img)
>  
>  This works like a charm on most cases, but if the image is originally
>  in RGBA format, it causes a loss of information. This is annoying when
>  the image has transparency, since it is completely lost.
>  
>  As a workaround, I'm doing something like:
>  
>      if pil_image.mode == 'RGBA':
>          alpha = pil_image.split()[3]
>          mask = wx.EmptyImage(*alpha.size)
>          mask.SetData(alpha.convert('1').convert('RGB').tostring())
>          bmp.SetMask(wx.Mask(wx.BitmapFromImage(mask, 1)))
>  
>  But the results are not perfect (see
>  http://web.tiscali.it/agriggio/wx_pil.html)
>  
>  So I'd like to know if there's a better way to do this.


Not currently, but 2.5 is getting alpha support in wxImage and wxBitmap, 
as well as some other nice image/bitmap enhancements...


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Robin Dunn
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